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Tavis Smiley: Black America could get on Trump train
USA Today | March 1, 2016 | Tavis Smiley

Posted on 03/01/2016 9:18:30 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Link only due to copyright issues: http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/03/01/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-black-voters-primary-elections-2016-column/81150932/


TOPICS: Campaign News; Issues; Parties; State and Local
KEYWORDS: blacks; hillary; trump
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1 posted on 03/01/2016 9:18:30 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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Link to article: http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/03/01/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-black-voters-primary-elections-2016-column/81150932/


2 posted on 03/01/2016 9:19:00 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ 2016)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Trump is trashing people all over the place, and they come back begging to negotiate.


3 posted on 03/01/2016 9:19:26 PM PST by ObamahatesPACoal ( REINCE PRIEBUS: Yeah, but no...you google Ted Cruz ... and immigration...Those are his words,)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Fingers crossed Cruz & Trump can knock Rubio out...and soon.

I really don't think I could go vote for that turd.

4 posted on 03/01/2016 9:20:26 PM PST by The Iceman Cometh (Ted Cruz & Marco Rubio - Amnesty Pimps)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I honestly believe that Trump can pull a much larger percentage of black voters than any other candidate on our side.

I will never understand why they would vote for Hitlery.


5 posted on 03/01/2016 9:21:44 PM PST by datura (Proud Infidel)
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

“Trump is trashing people all over the place, and they come back begging to negotiate.”

Trumpys
Trumpholes
Trumpaloompa
Trumpsters
Trumpanzees
Trumpenistas
Trumpers
Trumptards
Trump Cult
Trump Diehards
The Trumpkin Proletariat
Trumpites
Trumpettes

ESAD


6 posted on 03/01/2016 9:23:28 PM PST by Eddie01
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s always been somewhat of fools gold when a republican thinks they increase the black votes because it always seems to stay at the 90+%. I do think trump has a chance to do better than normal. We shall see.


7 posted on 03/01/2016 9:24:55 PM PST by ilgipper
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Here is the dirty little secret. In real life, blacks don’t like Latino’s and especially illegals.


8 posted on 03/01/2016 9:28:19 PM PST by umgud
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Americans of all types who have been diced / hyphenated and put in their little boxes by demographers will come on board the Trump Train.

He has beaten the GOPe, the MSM, and soon.. Hillary.


9 posted on 03/01/2016 9:31:20 PM PST by CharleysPride (VT-Day!)
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Americans of all types who have been diced / hyphenated and put in their little boxes by demographers will come on board the Trump Train.

Yep. Soooouuuuullll Train. Loved that show. And I'm as pasty you get. Love music of all types tho and enjoyed wiggling about. I wish Redd Foxx were still alive. I'd be curious to hear what sort of colorful language he'd use to describe our current state of affairs.

10 posted on 03/01/2016 9:40:11 PM PST by Kudsman (Restore the Republic. Repeal the 17th.)
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I don't agree with many of Tavis's opinions, but I've seen his shown many times, and at least on his show he is a class act. He has interviewed a number of people, even those on the right, and he doesn't engage in drive-by journalism, or gotcha journalism, and he always gives his guests a chance to make their case.

I also like the fact that he and "Brother" Cornel West have been ganging up on Obama for being a sell-out, Goldman-Sachs steppin' and fetchit.

The enemy of my enemy is occasionally my friend.

11 posted on 03/01/2016 9:43:46 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear
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Trump with his colorful personality and name recognition will definitely pull more black voters than John McCain or Mitt Romney.


12 posted on 03/01/2016 9:45:30 PM PST by Fast Ed97
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Redd would be glad to see politicians trying to get rid of the IRS!


13 posted on 03/01/2016 9:48:11 PM PST by CharleysPride (VT-Day!)
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Lol.


14 posted on 03/01/2016 9:49:38 PM PST by Kudsman (Restore the Republic. Repeal the 17th.)
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To: datura

So do I. It’s counterintuitive, especially with the latest David Duke controversy, but he transcends politics to an extent thanks to his celebrity, large-tha- life persona, etc. It’s so ironic that the black Dem vote is killing civil rights marcher Sanders in favor of a party shill like Hillary. I think it’s at least half due to name recognition alone. A percentage of blacks are going to vote Trump. Not saying it will be big, but i predict it will be a) more than Romney and b) enough to drive the media absolutely insane.


15 posted on 03/01/2016 9:59:00 PM PST by Callahan
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I’ve never understood how it is that Democrats get 90+% of the black vote. Are they still voting Democrat because of President Johnson and the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act?? Bills which passed Congress with significant Republican support, but which are credited to a Democrat president?

Do blacks realize that they don’t have to vote Democrat to show gratitude for something that happened 50 years ago, even if they give that credit to the Democrat party in error???


16 posted on 03/01/2016 10:54:06 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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Imagine a Republican presidential candidate being asked to disavow the support of Louis Farrakhan. That’s when you know you have won the race!! PLEASE ASK THAT QUESTION


17 posted on 03/01/2016 10:58:00 PM PST by Fast Ed97
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To: umgud

Go to a barber shop or hair salon and hear how Asians are berated as well...bigotry is allowed.


18 posted on 03/02/2016 2:37:37 AM PST by CincyRichieRich (Our freaking country is more important that some country club clueless moron aristocracy.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

They vote for public assistance and affirmative action; as a whole, they are the furthest from the WASP ethic that built this country. Imagine the financial struggles that are part of every day life for people, and remove them; imagine never making a rent payment or paying a grocery bill for FIFTY YEARS.


19 posted on 03/02/2016 3:57:16 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Blacks are Clintons strongest primary voters. Hard to see defections from 50 years of co-dependency.


20 posted on 03/02/2016 4:20:12 AM PST by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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